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“Bakunawa can never devour the last moon, unless you stop making noises” – Anonymous Pintados

Here is a Bakunawa (Dragon) design Back tattoo
with a small description on the right written in Bisaya

The orange colored text on the right are the names of each Rosette motifs
from above to blow it reads:
1. the title above reads Bulak Patik (Floral tattoo)
2. Balintawak – Red Hibiscus flower
3. 2nd and 3rd are Pagusi – Lotus flower
4. is flower of the Tambis tree

and the white text paragraph is a small description of the Visayan tattoo
it reads:
“the beginning of getting a tattoo of
a Warrior is by battle,

Manuku design is inspired by Ashti work, since I don’t know how to draw a cute pikachu 😛

Tukugu design is inspired by the Visayan Lord customs, his carrying a Talibong sword from Leyte or Samar? I’m not sure. the tattoo design is inspired by the Bisayas Illustration on The Boxer codex manuscript, I made his teeth white since he hates to chew on betel nuts, he only eats fish 😛

Backstory:

Manuku is a Ancestral spirit Tarsier from the island of the hills, he found Tukugu in the ravaged village attacked by raiders from the other island, since then Manuku took care of Tukugu as he grew up, Manuku teaches Tukugu how to survive and to fight, Tukugu then left the Island of the hills with Manuku to look for the sacred artifacts pass down by Tukugu’s ancestral tribe that has been stolen by the raiders, along the way Tukugu met some other people from other places, then later joined Tukugu and Manuku for his adventure, finding the lost sacred atrifacts (to be continued)

Background Story:
Dagonhoy is a normal college student,
he normally trains after school, doing some Kali, he doesn’t have sparring partners so he uses the tree for practising his strikes, one day when he wass heading home, he saw some local thugs bullying some of his classmates, he immediately jump in to the rescue, he took them for 4 seconds, ended up saving his classmate which was beated by the thugs, he took his classmate to his grandmother which was a Baybaylan and tend to his injures.

now the local thugs wanted revenge and wanted Dagonhoy to be executed.
(plot continued)

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Tatsulok is a Tagalog word for Triangle, it comes from the two Tagalog words, Tatlo which means three and and Sulok which means corners, Three corners (tat sulok) therefor a shape of a triangle.

Triangle is also commonly associated to Filipino martial arts as well as the Filipino culture.
to learn more click the link here: TRIANGLE

Background story…
His name is Tatsu, he practice Filipino Dumog, the art of Grappling,
he was born not knowing his parents, he is an orphant who lives by his master
who took him as his student as well as his foster child, he has this amulet
that shape of a circle with a triangle with a Ka symbol embbeded to it.
little that he know that the amulet his wearing is one of the
shards of the Magical Tatsulok stone, that was buried by Bathala
in high mountains, a stone used for sealing all magic that human possess.

now demons are looking for the shards and its up to who ever possess the amulet
to stop them..

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I always wanted to write a novel base on this, but I never had the motivation to write the whole thing hahahah xD